Boss Tactics: The Curator
Encounter Flow
Encounter Setup: Curator patrols the menagerie.
- Every 10 seconds, Curator summons an Astral Flare with initial aggro on a player which is not its main target. This consumes 10% of its mana.
- Every 100 seconds (10 Flares summoned), Curator enters an evocation state, which lasts 20 seconds.
- Curator stops dealing melee damage or casting bolts. Flares are not being summoned.
- When done, fight continues as before (melee, bolts and flares).
- Curator reaches 15% health - Curator enrages.
- Evocation stops immediately. Astral Flares are no longer being summoned.
- After 10 minutes - the Curator berserks.
Abilities
Curator
Immunities: Taunt, Mana draining spells, Poison, Bleed and Arcane based spells/abilities.
- Melee: Deals 3000 damage pet hit on plate.
- Hateful Bolt: An instant spell dealing 4500-6000 arcane damage. Used against the 2nd highest on the Curator's aggro table, every 10-15 seconds.
- Evocation: A channeling (non-interruptable) ability that replenishes the Curator's mana to full. Lasts 20 seconds. During this time, all damage against him is increased by 200%.
- Enrage: At 15%, the Curator enters the enrage state, increasing his damage and his bolt frequency.
- Berserk: After 10 minutes, Curator casts an undispellable debuff on the raid, increasing arcane damage taken by 500%.
Astral Flares
Immunities: Taunt, Stuns, Roots, Snares.
- Melee: None.
- Arcing Sear: A 10 yard instant cast, dealing 675-825 arcane damage, and chains up to 3 targets.
Roles
- Main Tank (MT)
- Protection or Feral specced.
- Healers
- Holy or Restoration specced. At least two.
- DPS
- Preferablly ranged due to the Flares' chaining Arcing Sears.
Strategy
- Raid positions (after tank engages) -
- MT tanks the Curator at the center of the hall, far enough from the raids entry point to allow the DPS to spread along the walls.
- MT healer stands close to the wall, to the side of the MT.
- Ranged DPS spread along the walls, keeping a 10 yard distance between each other.
- Melee DPS attempt to fight at the center of the hall, yet at least 10 yards from the MT and MT healer.
- Pets. Two options -
- Melee pets attack the Curator doing the entire fight.
- A hunter pet capable of dealing enough aggro can attempt and tank the flares. In such case, he should be trained with Arcane Resistance.
- If someone notices a flare's sear chains to another member, he must reposition himself.
- DPS should move as little as possible, even when being aggroed by the flares, to prevent the sears from chaining to others.
- Tank engages the Curator. Raid enters positions.
- DPS -
- Everyone concentrates on taking down the flares, as long as one is present.
- Damage is done to the Curator only when there are no flares present.
- Warlocks can time their Curse of Doom on the Curator such that it deals damage to him when he is evocating.
- When the Curator evocates -
- DPS use damage increasing cooldowns (e.g. Hunter's Rapid Fire, Shaman's Heroism, Mage's Water Elemental…)
- Priests use their Shadowfiend to regenerate more mana, as it will deal 300% damage.
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